Social Democratic and Labor Party

The Social Democratic and Labor Party (SDLP) is a socialist party in Northern Ireland that was founded on 20 August 1970. The party was the most popular of the Irish republican parties during The Troubles, but it lost its popularity by 2001, when Sinn Fein gained more popularity. The SDLP was sidelined, holding just 3 of the 18 House of Commons seats allocated to North Ireland and only 12 out of the 108 seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly.